Think about the criteria you use for selecting any material for your course such as coverage, level, and accessibility. In addition, you can compare and incorporate the criteria from the sources listed below.
Presenters: Kristy Richardson, Faculty, Nutrition, Fullerton College; Amanda Taintor: ASCCC OERI Project Monitor, Early Childhood Ed, Reedley College
ASCCC OERI:
Videos are an excellent, zero-cost source of content to curate. But what is their copyright status? Are they OER?
Some videos you find on free sites like YouTube will have a Creative Commons license indicated in their description, but the vast majority are not OER. They are free, but they are fully copyrighted. In other words, they are ZTC resources.
With that said, you can link and embed videos without worrying about getting copyright permission. If the video is freely available, and especially if you see an "Embed" option, that means the video is meant to be shared!
Accessibility Note: Videos must be accurately captioned. YouTube automatic captioning is not acceptable, because it has inaccuracies and does not have punctuation or sentence capitalization. .
One strategy is to use a site or channel that is well-known for producing high-quality, captioned videos. The following YouTube channels contain videos that are mostly captioned (always double-check though)!
Avoid YouTube videos with auto-generated captions with this simple trick! After entering a search on YouTube, use the "Filter" option to limit results to those with Subtitles/CC. Note the other filters available, such as Duration and Creative Commons:
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Image: "Closed captioning symbolLinks to an external site." by WGBH is in the Public Domain
There are many high-quality OER image collections available to use. Please take a moment to explore some of these open image collections below. Note: We will take a deeper dive into open licenses, Creative Commons licenses, and attributions next!
PexelsLinks to an external site.: A large selection of high-quality free stock photos and royalty-free images.
All GoLinks to an external site.: A collection of stock photos featuring plus-size office workers.
Centre for Aging BetterLinks to an external site.: Positive and realistic images of older people.
Disabled and Here CollectionLinks to an external site.: Photo collection featuring disabled Black, Indigenous, people of color.
Disability:INLinks to an external site.: Disability-inclusive stock photography.
Dollar StreetLinks to an external site.: Photographs of families, their homes, and how they live around the world.
Human Development InstituteLinks to an external site.: Images featuring people with disabilities.
Open PeepsLinks to an external site.: Hand-drawn, mix-and-match illustration library.
PICNOILinks to an external site.: Stock photo library of diverse multi-racial images.
Queer in Tech CollectionLinks to an external site.: Photoset of queer and gender-nonconforming (GNC) people in technology.
Page Adapted from "Teaching with OER and Open Pedagogy for Equity" by Aloha Sargent and College of the Canyons, for the California Community Colleges’ Zero Textbook Cost Degree program, is licensed under CC BY 4.0.
Diverse and Inclusive section adapted from "Open Image CollectionsLinks to an external site." by Abbey Elder for Iowa State University LibraryLinks to an external site., licensed under CC BY 4.0Links to an external site.
LibreText ADAPT feature
Samples of courses made with ADAPT
You will have to make a free account to use the system
The ASCCC OERI had a few recorded training session on using ADAPT
OpenEd Week 2025, sponsored by LibreTexts partner in open education, OEGlobal. Join us next week, March 3-7, for a full schedule of events about all things LibreTexts. From a four part series designed to get you started in our ADAPT open homework and assessment platform, to presentations on creating, remixing, editing, adapting, an adopting OER with LibreTexts, and success stories from some of our LibreNet consortium members, we have something for everyone. Visit the official OpenEd Week website for more information about OpenEd Week, and see below for our complete schedule (all times PST). Registration is not required; click on the title of any presentation to join us on the day/time specified.